Keynote Dr. Tasha Stanton - Rethinking Osteoarthritis - Is It More Than Just The Joint?

About: Traditional medical and public views of osteoarthritis are that it is a degenerative disease of the joint that is progressive and ultimately requires surgical intervention. New evidence suggests that things are a bit more complex than we might think.
This talk will explore the modern view of osteoarthritis by exploring the substantial changes that occur to the pain system and to the immune system, and to the gut, that are heightened by lifestyle and diet factors. It will also explore the key therapeutic targets for osteoarthritic pain recovery, including the role we play as clinicians via our words and language.
Citations:
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Associate Professor Tasha Stanton is the Osteoarthritis Research Theme Lead for IIMPACT in Health at The University of South Australia, Adelaide. A/Prof Stanton currently holds a National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowship. She is a clinical pain neuroscientist, with original clinical training as a physiotherapist.
She has received $3.4m in competitive research funding, has published 65 peer-reviewed journal articles, and she has been a keynote/invited speaker at 80 national and international conferences.
Her research has won both national and international awards, including the World Congress of Pain Ronald Dubner research award for the best series of papers as a trainee, the Australian Pain Society Rising Star Award and the Australian Physiotherapy Association Best New Investigator Award.
Her research focuses on pain - why do we have it and why doesn’t it go away? She has a specific interest in cortical body representation, somatosensation, multi-modal illusions, and pain.